Heads of a Course of Leciures 
luable on account of the goodness of the 
fruit for cyder. One wine pint of the 
recently-expressed juice, usually weighs 
from 17 to 17| ounces, avoirdupoise: a 
sure proof of the presence of much sac¬ 
charine matter, and consequently must 
make strong cyder. I usually suffer my 
fruit to drop off the trees, till about the 
middle of October, taking care to pitch 
it up every two or three days; and, after 
it is collected, I keep it as long as I can 
before it begins to decay ; finding that 
the longer the fruit is kept, the better the 
cyder, as a considerable evaporation of 
•water from the fruit will take place, or, 
in other words, it will shrink: the sac¬ 
charine principle, as well as the acid, re¬ 
main the same; or are, perhaps, im¬ 
proved. As to the mode of pressing, 
some use hair-bags; others, hair-cloths: 
I use straw. After the juice is ex¬ 
pressed, I immediately put it into proper 
casks; and, as soon as the fermentation 
is sufficiently gone through to permit a 
bung in the hole of the cask, I stop it 
down, and never touch it in any way, 
cither by racking, or putting hops to it, 
or adding any thing whatever; being per¬ 
suaded that, if the fruit be good and the 
cyder properly made, and that too before 
any frost sets in, nothing of the kind is 
necessary ; but, on the contrary, that the 
jacking "of cyder, perfectly fermented, 
injures it. James Jinkikcs. 
HuntspiUi Nov. 19, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine* 
SIR, 
N one of the Numbers of the Monthly 
Magazine, published some years ago, 
will be found a paper, containing an 
Abstract of the General Principles of 
Eogicy If I can depend on the reten¬ 
tive powers of my memory, that paper 
did not embrace the whole subject; and 
•vour correspondent, 1 think, promised to 
complete his design in a subsequent com¬ 
munication, which I do not remember to 
have afterwards appeared. As you 
favoured the Essay in question with a 
place in your very valuable and widely 
circulated publication, I may presume, 
that you are still disposed to distinguish, 
in die same manner, anv disauisition of 
a similar nature; and, as your former 
correspondent left his sketch unfinished, 
J send you for insertion the f-iiowing 
Synopsis, which appears to roe to com¬ 
prehend the principal departments of 
the kindred Sciences of Logic and Me¬ 
taphysics ; and which, unless I deceive 
myself, may be of some little use to tljc 
student of these sciences, by pointing 
out to him the path of inquiry, and by 
serving, in a greater or less degree, as a 
guide to him, through those more intri¬ 
cate mazes, where, in certain stages of 
his progress, he may be in danger of 
losing his vvay, or of getting bewildered. 
It may, however, be meet, that I should 
previously give you a very brief state¬ 
ment of the circumstances in which the 
paper here respectfully offered to your 
consideration, originated. 
It will no doubt be in the recollection 
of many of the readers of the Monthly 
Magazine, that a scheme for filling up 
some vacant chairs in a foreign Univer¬ 
sity, was some years ago in agitation in 
this place, and attracted a considerable 
share of the public attention, as it ex¬ 
posed those concerned to serious trouble, 
and ultimately resulted in very unplea¬ 
sant and indeed mortifying consequen¬ 
ces, both here and in other parts nf the 
island. I may be permitted to observ'e, 
as it is well known, that a certain noble 
peer of the 'i|ialm very highly interested 
himself in these arrangements, and, mis¬ 
apprehending the nature of the trust 
reposed in him by the University in 
question, or by its agents in this island, 
conceived himself authorised to dispose 
of the professorships vacant at that pe¬ 
riod. In consequence of his lordship’s 
representations, several gentlemen here 
were induced to accept of his offers, 
among whom I was one. The chair of 
Logic and Metaphysics was tendered to 
me; and, having duly examined the pro¬ 
spect which was thus opened up to me, 
and the encouragements held out to my 
acceptance, circumstanced as I was, I 
did not deem it prudent to decline the 
situation. 
Conceiving ray nomination to be fixed 
and decided, and looking forward to the 
discharge of my duty, and to the period 
of my leaving this country, which I was 
taught to believe would be in the course 
of a very few months, I immediately 
entered on a course of laborious and 
extensive reading and study, in order to 
prepare myself for the task which had 
been devolved upon me. I was more¬ 
over at considerable expense in furnish¬ 
ing myself with books, and such other 
things as a man having such views, 
would necessarily require for his outfit. 
The issue of this scheme is also well 
known. After having in this manner 
suffered very great and serious incua- 
veuiences, and been kept in the most 
uneasy and tormenting suspence for 
many months, until my patience was 
completely exhausted, X was at length 
given 
